Harwood, Joanna

1642 - 1711  (68 years)

• Name	Harwood, Joanna
  Birth	10 Dec 1642	Boston, Massachusetts   [1]
  	Record says 10th day of 10th month. [old style] [1]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1648 - 1673	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  	Rehoboth was first settled in 1643, and the center of the first Rehoboth settlement where Roger initially lived (known as the Ring of the Green) is not in present day Rehoboth, but is now in the Rumford neighborhood of the city of East Providence, Rhode Island. The shift occurred in two steps: (1) In 1812 the Town of Seekonk Massachusetts was created from the western half of the Town of Rehoboth, and the Ring of the Green was then in Seekonk. (2) In 1862 the western half of Seekonk was given to Rhode Island and named East Providence as part of a solution to a boundary dispute between Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Ring of the Green was then in East Providence (see the map under documents below and the East Providence Historical Society page http://ephist.org/ring-of-the-green/ ). Although Best published his genealogy of the Amidon family in 1904, it appears that he was unaware of the 1862 boundary decision.
  Death	1 Jul 1711	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts   [4]
  	Joanna's burial place is unknown. The entries on findagrave.com for Roger Amidon and his wives Sarah and Joanna Harwood say they were buried in the Village Cemetery in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. This is the wrong place because the Village Cemetery was established in 1773 and the earliest known burial was in 1774. The present day location of Joanna's death is probably near the "Ring of the Green" in East Providence, Rhode Island, or at Roger's property in present day Attleborough. She almost certainly would have been buried locally (see notes on Roger Amidon's page). [2, 3]
  Person ID	I2321	Martin-Bloom
  Last Modified	2 Jan 2021

  
  

  Father	Harwood, George
  Mother	Jane
  Family ID	F909	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anidowne (Amadowne, Amidon), Roger,   c. 21 Feb 1607, Ringwood, Hampshire, England d. Abt 11 Nov 1673, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age ~ 66 years)
  Marriage	27 Dec 1668	Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Children	+ 1. Amidon, Philip,   b. 26 Jan 1669/70, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts d. 15 Mar 1747, Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 77 years)   2. Amidon (Amadowne), Henry,   b. 24 Jan 1670/1, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts   3. Amidon (Amadowne), Mehitable,   b. 27 Aug 1672, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F813	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2020

  
  

• Event Map	Load the map	Birth - 10 Dec 1642 - Boston, Massachusetts Marriage - 27 Dec 1668 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Residence - 1648 - 1673 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts Death - 1 Jul 1711 - Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S346] Boston, MA: Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015), Vol. Boston: p.13, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1646/rd/30233/13/723597139. Joanna of George & Jane Harwood born 10th day 10th month [10 Dec 1642] [S202] findagrave.com, Memorial # 175470479. [S336] George H Tilton and Leonard Bliss, Jr., History of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 1643 - 1918, (Pub. by author, Boston, 1918), p.275. [S315] Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rehoboth, Vol. 1, Deaths, p. 791 .